Learning RSPEC with Rails 4 (Alpha)

Hope you all are fine and doing good! I am sure most of you, are using TDD for years now. And, once we think of TDD, the first thing comes into our mind is, RSPEC. We all agree that Rspec is a great framework of Test-Driven-Development and its integration with other libraries (like fixtures etc.) is seamless.

With rapid revolution happening in Rails community, Rspec too has evolved over the years, and my motto is to bring this newly developed RSPEC framework in such a way so that, those who are eager to learn TDD can take tips and take this as a learning material. And those, who are planning to migrate can refer to this!

Environments I am using:

Ruby 2.1.2

Rails 4.2.1

Rspec 3.2.0

Idea is to share small code snippets while learning these changes, where we see: what is new. So let’s explore this now:

1. In Rspec 3, the support for ‘should‘ (e.g. foo.should == bar) is deprecated and is no longer supported. Instead of ‘should’, rspec encourages us to use ‘expect‘. Let’s see how it works:

If you try running this example, you’ll get this deprecation warning message:

Deprecation Warnings:

Using `should` from rspec-expectations‘ old `:should` syntax without explicitly enabling the syntax is deprecated. Use the new `:expect` syntax or explicitly enable `:should` with `config.expect_with(:rspec) { |c| c.syntax = :should }` instead

Now, let’s take an example of controller spec. Create a controller with scaffold and write the spec as below: